Poster and Diagram

Objectives

Through this section, you will learn:

• How to get information from poster
• How to get an information diagram

Learn about it!

When you walk on the street, there are various advertisements and announcements you might see. One of them is in the form of a poster. Can you understand the message of those posters well?

You might also have read charts in your books. Can you comprehend the information easily? Well, both the poster and charts contain information. Through this lesson, we will learn how to understand the poster and charts easily. So, you can get and interpret the information properly.

Look at the following picture. In your opinion, what picture is it? What information can you get?

The picture above is the example of a poster. From the poster, we can get some information. The poster informs a seminar named The Mother Earth Seminar. The poster also informs the venue or place (The Aksana Hall), time (29 June 2015), and charge of the seminar (Free). To make it remarkable, a poster is usually supported by jargon and interesting design. To get a better understanding, see the following identification:

By seeing the poster above, we know that the function of a poster is to convey a message or information. The message can be in the form of an announcement or advertisement. Jargon and interesting design is usually involved in a poster to persuade the readers. Moreover, a poster is usually written in the present tense.

Now, look at the following chart. What type of chart is it? What information do you get from the chart?

There are various types of charts. The chart above belongs to a column chart type. The chart informs book preference of Class XII Science 3 the year 2015. The information can be seen in the chart title. From the chart, we can see that most of the students prefer Hunger Games book (12 students). Meanwhile, the Divergent book is less preferable for the students (8 students only).

There are four common types of charts. They are column chart, pie chart, bar chart, and line chart. All of the chart types have similar content –information. The title usually gives information of the topic. Meanwhile, the content of the chart usually gives specific information. Look at the following identification:

By seeing the poster above, we know that the function of a poster is to convey a message or information. The message can be in the form of an announcement or advertisement. Jargon and interesting design are usually involved in a poster to persuade the readers. Moreover, a poster is usually written in the present tense.

Now, look at the following chart. What type of chart is it? What information do you get from the chart?

There are various types of chart. Chart above belongs to a column chart type. The chart informs book preference of Class XII Science 3 year 2015. The information can be seen in the chart title. From the chart, we can see that most of the students prefer Hunger Games book (12 students). Meanwhile, Divergent book is less preferable for the students (8 students only).

There are four common types of chart. They are column chart, pie chart, bar chart, and line chart. All of the chart types have similar content –information. The title usually gives the information of the topic. Meanwhile, the content of the chart usually gives the specific information. Look at the following identification:

Let’s Practice in describing data

Column graph presents figures on the number of International students in australia studying intensive english (ELIcos) courses for the years 2002-2004. these students came from four asian countries (china, korea, taiwan, and hong kong) and one european country, the netherlands.

Here is the organization of describing data

Statement: Netherlands’ students in studying intensive course dropped slightly

Data: ‘Between 2002 and 2003’ ‘From 22 till 18

Comments: ‘a dropp by 18%’ ‘a slight dropp’

Between 2002 and 2003, netherlands’ students in studying intensive course dropped slightly, from 22 till 18. This was a minor decrease by 18%, quite a slight drop.

Here some words variety that you can use in describing data

developing essay relate describing data is frequently tested in some writing task, try to develop it to practice your skill.

Here is the example of Bodyparagraph 5

Netherlands’ students who join elicos in Australia from 2002 till 2004 were 22, 18 and 37. Between 2002 and 2003 Netherlands students dropped slightly from 22 till 18. this was a minor decrease by 18%. Whereas, in 2003 until 2004, they experienced a significant rise from 18 till 37. this was an explosion increase by 105%. So it was in line with the elicos expectation.

Do you understand?

Look at the pie chart below. Then, answer the following questions:

1. What does the chart tell about?
2. What specific information can you get?

                                       

Here is the answer:

1. The chart tells about students’ time preference for learning.
2. From the chart, we can get three specific information (1) 52% of students prefer to learn in the morning (2) 38% of students prefer to learn in the evening (3) 10% of the students prefer to learn in the afternoon. So, we can conclude that most of the students prefer to learn in the morning.

Keypoints

From this lesson, we have learned about the poster and charts. There are some points we need to remember about the poster and charts. The points are in the following table.